Wild Earth 5, no. 2

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 5, no. 2

Intended as yet another instrument for attacking anthropocentric ideologies and voracious agricultural/industrial civilizations, the journal Wild Earth was published by the Earth First! movement between 1991–2004.


Davis, John, ed., Wild Earth 5, no. 2 (Summer 1995). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5689.

Issue Theme: Environmental Consequences of Having a Baby in the USA

This issue includes:

  • Ecological Differences Between Logging and Wildfire by George Wuerthner
  • Bumblebee Ecology by Bernd Heinrich
  • Health Implications of Global Warming and the Onslaught of Alien Species by Michael Soulé
  • Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation Initiative by Peter Brussard
  • A Preliminary Conservation Plan for the Columbia Mountains by Evan Frost
  • The Environmental Consequences of Having a Baby in the United States
    by Charles A. S. Hall, R. Gil Pontius Jr., Lisa Coleman, and Jae-Young Ko

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Further readings: 
  • Butler, Tom, ed. Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
  • Taylor, Bron. "Religion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism: From Earth First! to the Unabomber to the Earth Liberation Front." Terrorism and Political Violence 10, no. 4 (1998): 1-42.
  • Joosse, Paul. "Leaderless Resistance and Ideological Inclusion: The Case of the Earth Liberation Front." Terrorism and Political Violence 19 (2007): 351–68.